Abstract

Interpreted as a chess game, sports, art, or a way to build a mindset. Various studies have shown that chess is more dominant in providing psychological benefits, namely logic skills and problem solving; teaches perseverance, concentration, patience, discipline, and tolerance; train memory and creativity; establish interaction with others; dare to make decisions; improve self-confidence,
observation, analysis, and personal control; a systematic way of thinking, analytical, mathematical, and critical. These benefits can be identified in the cognitive and personality thing.
Chess abroad fairly popular since ancient times. Chess education in Indonesia is still rare, and people who like chess can be said to minorities. Seeing the many positive benefits of cognitive and personality, and yet the public interest in the development of chess, the researchers wanted
to know the cognitive and personality profiles of people who used to play chess. Cognitive profile in the study include intelligence, memory, creativity, and logic (reasoning). While personality profile visits by needs from the theory of Murray. Type of qualitative research is descriptive, which aims to find a picture or portrait of the problem in detail and systematically. Research subjects is a member of the chess club in Malang that passed the selection to follow PORPROV in October 2009 as many as 8 people. Method of data collection using psychological
tests, the CFIT, SPM, ME (the 9th part of IST), TKF, A3 (taken from the DAT), and EPPS. Data validity is checked using validity and reliability of each of these psychological tests. Cognitive profile of research results are (1) a high Intelligence level, (2) good Memory, (3)
Creativity is high, (4) sufficient Reasoning ability. Personality profile of research results is a high
need are Intraception and Order, while the low need are Affiliation, and Heterosexual. In general, the subject's personality profile chess players need not show the dominant owned, or need an outstanding pattern, because each subject is influenced by the character or style of a different chess game.